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Austin Wu
408-759-2478 | amw423@cornell.edu | linkedin.com/in/austin–wu/ | github.com/Austin4705

Education

  • Cornell University Ithaca, New York
    Dual Major: Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics Graduation Date: May 2027

  • Graduate: Special Topics in Condensed Matter Theory (Topological Materials), Lattice Theory, Differentiable Topology, Nano-fabrication Lab (Cleanroom Training)

    Undergrad: Solid State Phys, Quantum I&II, Adv Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Fusion, Circuits, Mathematical Phys I&II, RL, Honors Lin Alg and Vector Calculus (Intro to Manifolds), Putnam Seminar, Honors Intro Phys Sequence

    Awards: USACO Platinum Competitor (Top  ≈ 150/30000 in the USA for Pre-collegiate Competitive Programming)

Experience

  • Member of Technical Staff June 2026 – Present
    Atum Works Mountain View, CA

    • Leading a project on hyperscaling and automation of our process engineering with advanced mechatronics.

    • Leading talent initiatives for recruiting new hires.

  • Researcher October 2023 – Present
    Cornell, Yasuda Lab for 2D Quantum Nanomaterials Ithaca, NY

    • Created 2D graphene devices in order to synthesize novel induced ferroelectric switching

    • Built and utilized a novel experimental tool called a Quantum Twisting Microscope

    • Developed an expansive software application with nontrivial CV algorithms to automate the detection of 2D material flakes allowing for exponential speedup of device fabrication.

    • Designed and built the mechanisms for the dilution fridges that are used by the lab to experimentally measure devices

  • Researcher April 2025 – January 2026
    Caltech, Ye Lab for Topological Materials Pasadena, CA

    • Created a novel shear-force mechanism to stretch crystals at absolute temperatures to break symmetries and measure in-plane anomalous Hall effects in a kagome material

    • Grew 2D TMD crystals, Kagome materials, annealed crystals into polytypes and measured them

    • Created a novel in-situ strain mechanism to facilitate high strain uniaxial and biaxial measurement

  • Co-founder and Active President December 2023 – Present
    Quantum Computing Association at Cornell Ithaca, NY

    • Leading a team advised by Professor Or Katz that is creating a novel Quantum Memory System to break the record for room-temperature quantum information storage by 100x

    • Created complicated thermal simulations in COMSOL to verify a nonmagnetic heating enclosure

    • Created a simulator for parameter optimization of the system and designed the optical table layout for the system

  • Intern August 2025 – October 2025
    Vigil Labs Palo Alto, CA

    • Creating quantitative research algorithms to generate alpha in the crypto markets

    • Building out quality software infrastructure for scaling up trading systems

  • Founding Engineer September 2024 – December 2024
    Deepsilicon (YC24) Remote

    • Worked on a custom TPU on an FPGA using a quantized 1.5-bit architecture to achieve performance speedups.

    • Implemented Berkeley Hardfloat for high-performance FPU operations

    • Created nontrivial optimizations like Chebyshev polynomial approximations for certain algorithms

    • Set up the FPGA compilation build chain.

Technical Skills

Languages: C/C++, Python, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Java, C#, Rust, Verilog, SystemVerilog
Frameworks: CUDA, React/Next, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Flask, Django, Tailwind
Developer Tools: Git, Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Vim
Libraries: Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, OpenCV, PyTorch, Sci-Kit, TensorFlow
Tools: SolidWorks, Fusion 360, COMSOL, Ansys, Vivado